The Forrest City times., 1887-12-10
ABOUT ARKANSAS.

ing Incident aOout Joe Gr0milng eA- perlence with the forest fire. says the Paragould Press. Jo was trying to prevent destruction of his property. The fire was sweeping towards the road leading from his house to the schoolhouse where his children were attending school Being time for school to adjourn, he started for the schooihouse to look after the children, but the fire was approaching him SO rapidly that he concluded to climb q sapIing and let the fire pass under him. Hedid SO, but the red flames shot up to his roasting place. biistered his hands, singcd his hair and eyebrows, and totally annihilated the seat of his pants.
 1 Last Saturday John Coleman of Con- way, a gentleman of color, who made a crop on the farm of Mrs. H. Mason, near Mayhower, stole bale of cotton belonging to the lady, and brought it here end sold 1t to Mir. J. F. Wooster. Mrs. Mason came to town Sunday and identified the cotton Immediately sheriff Dawson, accompanied by Mir. Monster, bearded tbe train for Little Rock, where they supposed they would ind the thief. After arriving there they succeeded by telcgrams in locat- ing him at Malvern, where he was arrested by an officer. Deputy Sherif Witt left Sunday evening for that point and win bring the gentleman back to answer for hts crime
 l For some time past burglaries have been frequent in Little Rock. Friday night about l2 o'clock T. H. Hurley, sac Indian Dc-tcr, discovered an in- tTuder in his room. He grappled wit h him, and after desperate struggle overpowered him and held him until the arrival of the police. The burglar was identified as James Williams, an ex-conviet, and will no doubt be quick y returned to the penitentiary as the grand jury is now in session.
 l At Helena Saturday s'The" Hamil- ton, white engineer, shot his wife three times with q pistol, one of the shots taking effect in the breast, the second in her arm, and the third in her shoulder They have been married only short time and have not gotten along very well. Hamilton returned rom trip and accused her of unfaith- falness to him, whereupon she i'm nediately attempted to strike him, when he pulled his pistol and fired the three barrels into her before she could make her escape. He is now in jail. The woman's wounds are painful, but not necessarily falal.
 1 Two Turkish women, who could speak scarcely word of English, wandered about in Little Rock last ThurHday, hunting for their husbands. who had. it seems, been arrested on the charge of murder committed in Texas, and yanked away without the knowledge of their wives by officers rom the Lone Star state.
 { Mr. Dock Kittrell, prosperous farmer of the Stony Point community, went down on the White river for big hnnt, says the Arkansas Hub. While seated on the bank of lake he espied a big black bear swimming towards him. So soon as Bruln got on the bank Dock coolly drew bead on the animal, and at the crack of his gun down came the game without q strug- gle, and now Dock is the hero among our hunters. The Faulkner County Wheel is the latest aspirant to newspaper renown. The colored wheolers of Ashley county have established cooperative store.
 , The pampered editor of the Peoria Free Press is tired of wild turkey. He says tame turkey on subscription is a rarity in these parts.
 3 The boss beet at the Little Rock Fix position weighed fifty pounds. Tennes- see has any number of beats who weigh rom l25 to 250.
 Fort smith will have sewerage and 8 fire alarm system.
 The White River Methodist confer ence meets at Searey tomorrow. ? Hog cholera prevails in Baxter county.
 The deadly Emma Abbott CaRdler incident has invaded the rural districts Of the state. and number of local pa- pers are suffering with 1t.
 } Last Monday Bob Dawson of Clark county stood in one place and killed two fine deer within three hours. He wounded a third, but it escaped. 3 While the forest fires were raging in Mississippi county number of wagons loaded with cotton were caught on the road between Osceola and Big Lake, and destroyed, with their prec- ions freight.
 } The Daily Arkansas Press win be is-- sued from Little Rock by the Press Printing Company, beginning Decem- Der |.
 1 The Little Rock Gazette is g9 years old, but retains fall possession of its faculties and gets out early every morn ing, except Monday. Being devout to a fault, the old lady will not work on sunday.
 One of Barnum's Tigers Loose.
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